And the Common Agricultural Policy, Common Fisheries Policy, the ERM, the euro and dozens of other grandiose but politically correct fuckups. And charging us hundreds of millions a week for the privi… (View Post)

If you think the UK is fucked, I take it you've never been to a country like that actually is. The UK is in a phase of complacent stagnation and slow decline from a fairly high base, as is much … (View Post)

New Labour was the political arm of the British people and laws were meant for the latter not the former. See also Ecclestone, David Kelly, peerages, etc. etc. etc. (View Post)

You can level up, but doling out government money to regions already far too dependent on the state is the worst way to do it. If it worked, after a century of regional aid, Northern Ireland and Nort… (View Post)

Without doing a whole treatise on this, it depends on the nature of competition. The number of competitors and market share are beloved by lawyers and the press because they are simple and verifiable… (View Post)